Monthly Archive for December, 2007

A Brief History From the Founding of the City

My book is now available on Lulu for purchase. It will be on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. in 4-6 weeks or so.
http://www.lulu.com/content/1135104

Happy Holidays

I hope everybody has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.

Top 10 Discoveries of 2007

Archaeology magazine has come out with its list of the top ten discoveries of 2007.

http://www.archaeology.org/0801/topten/

Pocket Coin

Marcus Aurelius

Some of us coin nerds carry around “pocket” coins. This is my present one, a Marcus Aurelius Consecratio sestertius. This coin was struck after he died and was deified. It’s hard to see, but on the reverse of the coin is his four story funeral pyre surmounted by a quadriga, a four horse chariot.